Nathan Godfried
                           PH.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison
My teaching specialty is in twentieth-century American history. I have research interests in the history of mass communication, American labor history, and film history. My undergraduate classes explore the major political, economic, and social developments of the United States from 1916 to the end of the century. I offer a graduate reading course on twentieth-century American political history and a research seminar on American popular culture.		 Nathan Godfried Photo
Email: nathan.godfried@umit.maine.edu
Call: 207-581-1842
150 Stevens Hall

Representative Publications:

  • "Fellow Traveler, Organic Intellectual: J. Raymond Walsh and Radio News Commentary in the 1940s," Democratic Communique, 22:2 (Fall 2008): 19-45.
  • "Revising Labor History for the Cold War: The ILGWU and the Film, With These Hands," Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 28:3 (August 2008): 311-333"
  • 'Fellow Traveler of the Air': Rod Holmgren and Leftist Radio News Commentary in America's Cold War," The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 24:2 (June 2004): 233-51.
     
  • "Identity, Power, and Local Television: African Americans, Organized Labor, and UHF-TV in Chicago, 1962-1968," The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 22:2 (June 2002).
     
  • "Struggling over Politics and Culture: Organized Labor and Radio Station WEVD During the 1930s," Labor History, 42:4 (November 2001): 347-69. (Recipient of 2002 Cathy Covert Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, History Division).
     
  • WCFLWCFL, Chicago's Voice of Labor, 1926-1978 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997).
     
  • "Legitimizing the Mass Media Structure: The Socialists and American Broadcasting, 1926-1932," in Culture, Gender, Race, and U.S. Labor History (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993), edited by Ronald Kent, Sara Markham, David R. Roediger, and Herbert Shapiro, pp. 123-149.
     
  • Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor: American Economic Development Policy Toward the Arab East, 1942-1949 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1987).

Work in Progress:

  • "Fellow Travelers of the Air, 1940-1960," a study of leftist and radical journalists and broadcasters during the 1940s and 1950s.
     
  • "Struggling over Mass Culture: Trade Unions, Working-Class Americans, and Television, 1950-2000."
     
  • "With These Hands: The ILGWU, Film, and Labor History in the Cold War."